Leviticus 26:1-13

Blessings for Obedience

1 "You shall not make ¹idols for yourselves or erect an ²image or ³pillar, and you shall not set up a ⁴figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

2 ⁵You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

3 ⁶"If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,

4 then ⁷I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

5 ⁸Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And ⁹you shall eat your bread to the full and ¹⁰dwell in your land securely.

6 ¹¹I will give peace in the land, and ¹²you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And ¹³I will remove harmful beasts from the land, ¹⁴and the sword shall not go through your land.

7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

8 ¹⁵Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9 ¹⁶I will turn to you and ¹⁷make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.

10 You shall eat ¹⁸old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.

11 ¹⁹I will make my dwelling^[a] among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.

12 ²⁰And I ²¹will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.

13 ²²I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. ²³And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

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Leviticus 26:1-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 26

In this chapter, after a repetition of some laws against idolatry, and concerning keeping sabbaths, and reverencing the sanctuary of God, Le 26:1,2; in order to encourage the Israelites to keep the various statutes and commandments in this book, and in the preceding, many promises are made of plenty, and peace, and safety from enemies, and of the presence of God with them, Le 26:3-13; and on the contrary, to such as should despise and break his commandments, the most grievous things are threatened, as diseases of body, destruction by their enemies, barrenness and unfruitfulness of land, the sore judgments of wild beasts, famine, sword, and pestilence, Le 26:14-39; and yet after all, when they should confess their sins, and were humbled for them, the Lord promises to remember the covenant he made with their ancestors, and would deal kindly with them, and not cast them away, and utterly destroy them, Le 26:40-46.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 23

1. See Leviticus 19:4
2. See Exodus 20:4, 5
3. Exodus 23:24
4. Numbers 33:52; [Ezekiel 8:10]
5. Leviticus 19:30; See Exodus 20:8
6. Deuteronomy 11:13-15; Deuteronomy 28:1-14; See Leviticus 18:4
7. Psalms 67:6; Psalms 85:12; Ezekiel 34:26, 27; Ezekiel 36:30; Joel 2:23, 24; Zechariah 8:12; [ver. 20; Deuteronomy 11:17]
8. [Amos 9:13]
9. See Leviticus 25:19
10. See Leviticus 25:18
11. [1 Kings 4:25; 1 Chronicles 22:9]
12. Job 11:19; Jeremiah 30:10; Zephaniah 3:13
13. Ezekiel 34:25; [2 Kings 17:25; Isaiah 35:9; Ezekiel 5:17; Ezekiel 14:15]
14. [Ezekiel 14:17]
15. [Deuteronomy 32:30; Joshua 23:10; Isaiah 30:17]
16. 2 Kings 13:23
17. Nehemiah 9:23
18. Leviticus 25:22
19. Ezekiel 37:26-28; [Revelation 21:3]
20. Exodus 29:45; Cited 2 Corinthians 6:16
21. Jeremiah 7:23; Jeremiah 11:4; Jeremiah 24:7; Jeremiah 30:22; Ezekiel 11:20; Ezekiel 14:11; Ezekiel 36:28; Ezekiel 37:27; See Exodus 6:7
22. See Leviticus 25:38
23. Ezekiel 34:27; [Jeremiah 27:2; Jeremiah 28:10, 13]

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew tabernacle

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